E. Lockhart's Blog en-US Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:11:22 -0800 60 E. Lockhart's Blog 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/235799-internet-break-and-what-gifts-to-give-your-boyfriend-this-holiday-seaso Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:11:22 -0800 <![CDATA[Internet break, and What Gifts to Give Your Boyfriend this Holiday Season]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/235799-internet-break-and-what-gifts-to-give-your-boyfriend-this-holiday-seaso Sara Zarr (author of Once Was Lost! Kirkus best books of year list!) convinced me I need to take a break from internetty type activities. For like, all of December. Starting tomorrow.

I am doing it!
Which means: no (or minimal) twitter, facebook, myspace, blogging, browsing, reading Go Fug Yourself and other such nonsensical entertainments. Minimal email, minimal online this and that.
Allowed: only necessary emailing and holiday shopping.

I have a blog tour coming up which will REVEAL...



posted by E. Lockhart on November, 30 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/228336-this-and-that Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:12:26 -0800 <![CDATA[This and That]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/228336-this-and-that Sorry haven't blogged in so long.  I bought an apartment and am supervising the work being done on it and it is a VERY BUSY time.

Paint colors!  Why do you obsess me so?

And feast your eyes on this wallpaper:

Trees of mystery, you are mine!!!

On another note, have you checked out The Amanda Project?  My friend Melissa Kantor wrote the first book in this wild interactive mystery, and the site has a lot of very cool things you can do in addition to reading the story.

Also, I will be at ALAN this...



posted by E. Lockhart on November, 25 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/206666-dramarama-trailer Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:32 -0800 <![CDATA[Dramarama Trailer]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/206666-dramarama-trailer This awesome trailer for Dramarama made by the folks at Not Required Reading.  I love it!



posted by E. Lockhart on November, 20 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/206606-good-reads Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:21:30 -0700 <![CDATA[Good Reads]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/206606-good-reads Recently read:

WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON, by John Green and David Levithan.  Yes, they're both my friends, and YES, this book is most seriously excellent. Alternating stories of two guys in Chicago named Will Grayson, and their relationships with the women in their lives, and with one huge force of a guy namae Tiny Cooper. It comes out in April and you should pounce on it.

AIRHEAD by Meg Cabot.  I am probably the last person on earth to read it, but it is very, very good fun, and there's a...



posted by E. Lockhart on October, 29 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/201581-teens-top-ten Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:05:47 -0700 <![CDATA[Teens Top Ten!]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/201581-teens-top-ten It's Teen Read Week! Woohooot! 

I am going to be at Brooklyn Public Library with school groups in celebration -- and I'm glad to give you the YALSA top teen teens pics for 2009. I am on it!  Yay!!!! Here is link. 

Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry) Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon ...

posted by E. Lockhart on October, 22 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/197421-more-ask-ruby Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:15:05 -0700 <![CDATA[more ask Ruby]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/197421-more-ask-ruby Ruby is at it again. Answering people's questions, mostly advice to the lovelorn.  

Of course, she is a 17 year-old noboyfriend mental patient with highly questionable judgement.  But people seem to want her advice, anyway. 

In other news, Treasure Map of Boys is out in the world and Real Live Boyfriends cover art just showed up on my desk! That fourth Roo book will come out December 2010.  



posted by E. Lockhart on October, 14 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/187468-banned-books-week-goodness Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:25:01 -0700 <![CDATA[Banned Books Week goodness]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/187468-banned-books-week-goodness Lee Wind's blog!  Has super-cool Banned Book Week Q&As on it!

Me, Jacqui Robbins, Ellen Hopkins, Sarah Brennan, Frank Portman.  Section one is here. Section two is here. 

And Book People in Austin Texas, most excellent bookshop, has interviews up on its blog about Banned Books Week, with a great roster of folks besides me: Maureen Johnson, Garret Freymann-Weyr and K.L. Going.

IN OTHER NEWS, VAMPIRE GLAMOUR!

I went to Melissa de la Cruz's vampire book-launch party last night for The Van Alen...



posted by E. Lockhart on October, 09 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/186464-banned-books-week Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:17:25 -0700 <![CDATA[Banned Books Week]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/186464-banned-books-week Ilovebanned

Image by Literaticat. 

Happy Banned Books week.  Learn more here. If some people had their way, you'd never be allowed to read Harry Potter, or TTYL, or Forever, or Huckleberry Finn, Gossip Girl, The Golden Compass or The Catcher in the Rye.

What kind of world would that be?

Speak out. Talk to your English teachers and librarians and get a dialog going in class. Or just talk to your friends about it.  The more we are educated about these issues, the less power the censors will have. 

Here is...



posted by E. Lockhart on October, 01 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/183966-lame-blogger Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:30:22 -0700 <![CDATA[lame blogger]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/183966-lame-blogger Okay, Typepad (which is my blogging interface software thingee) just completely redesigned.  Hopefully this will solve my problems with typefaces changing on me, but I don't know. 

I have been the worst blogger since returning from tour.  Sorry. My brain is fried. But to answer your questions, Roo 4, aka REAL LIVE BOYFRIENDS, will come out in Fall 2010.  It is finished. 

I know what happens!  And I'm not telling. 

I am enjoying the back-to-school feeling of fall, working on some new projects...



posted by E. Lockhart on September, 30 ]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/178404-boy-book-challenge Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:42:28 -0700 <![CDATA[Boy Book Challenge]]> /author/show/173491.E_Lockhart/blog/178404-boy-book-challenge Sometimes the author is the last to know. 

In April, it turns out, The Boy Book was challenged in a Texas school.  
I love how the article  quotes my story at length on what kind of bra you should wear if you have puny frontal equipment.  Hee hee hee. But my very favorite bit is this beautifully tangled sentence: "Despite racy chapter titles and content, some say it is too adult for young eyes."
The awesome school district officials upheld the inclusion of the book in the library system...

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